Feb 8, 2025
Pros:
- The historical, medical and mystery tags are the defining content feature, with drama, comedy and romance being the supporting content. This create a kinda unique combo, that allows the mangaka to avoid the fantasy and high school tropes, while still maintaining some romcom drama.
- The art is pretty well done, but the narrative is what makes this stand out. The character motivations, the interrelationships, the dramatic plots, twists and reveals, the foreshadowing and hints, the background knowledge. All these elements are implemented with a care and meticulousness, that makes the mangas narrative stand out as quite remarkable.
- The long chapters makes the story pacing
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less predictable, which is great.
Cons:
- I have very little negative to say about this manga, so it will mostly be nitpicking.
- Our main character is written as, and consistently show, above average deduction skill and knowledge. She is wise in most regards, even fragile court intrigue that would humble the average manga protagonist. She does make mistake, but she is very good at using her insight to calculate peoples intentions. All this is good! But when it comes to romance directed at herself, she is as clueless as the weebs reading this. It is comedicly entertaining, but it does seem out of character for her.
- I considered mentioning that the romance is "Komi Can't Communicate" slow, but it didn't really annoy me at all, since the rest was great.
- Historical (and fantasy/isekai) genres are responsible for introducing the reader to the world's rules. This manga is good at that, but one (unspoiled) relationship with another you girl remains undefined for 30+ chapters before this is used to surprise the reader. In Inio Asano's Punpun, every earlier emitted detail hit me like a truck when revealed, due to the realistic nature of the setting. This punch is less severe in a historical manga, were the author chose not to define a relationship that we, the reader, couldn't predict.
Judgement:
- I loved every second, was glued to my seat and will reread it.
- I hope it finishes before 200 (long chapters), so it never becomes stale or repetitive.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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